Happy Friday, everyone!

This morning for breakfast I decided to make homemade cinnamon rolls. My favorite cinnamon roll recipe is one that is a yeast-type dough that requires letting the dough rise, etc. I usually make these at the holidays for family and friends and neighbors. But when I want a quick cinnamon roll recipe, I simply turn to my favorite biscuit recipe and get started - it’s quick and easy.

Biscuit Dough Cinnamon Rolls

2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 stick butter
1/2 - 3/4 cup milk
softened butter
raisins
sugar
cinnamon

Icing:

1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla
1-2 teaspoons milk

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter a 8×8 pan and set aside. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. Using a dough knife, incorporate the butter. Begin adding the milk slowly - add just enough to make a firm dough that has the least little bit of stickiness to it. Flour a pastry cloth and gently knead the dough a couple of times. Remember that too much handling will resort in toughness of the dough. Shape into a log and begin to roll out with a rolling pin to a rectangular shape about 1/4 inch thick. Cover the rolled dough with a light coating of butter, then sprinkle sugar, cinnamon and raisins on to your taste. Roll into a log and cut into 10-12 cinnamon rolls. Place in the buttered 8×8 pan and bake for about 20 minutes.

While the rolls are baking, mix up the icing. In a small bowl, place the powdered sugar and vanilla. Begin adding milk until it is the thickness you desire for drizzling over the rolls. When the rolls are done, remove them from the oven, drizzle with the icing and serve.

For lunch we took a break from school ~ I made the girls peanut butter and jelly sandwiches using homemade fig jam, fresh apple slices, Kashi cheddar crackers and for dessert a leftover blueberry muffin from yesterday’s breakfast. I have a nifty little Pamperd Chef sandwich cutter that I sometimes use, usually when making peanut butter and jelly to keep the sandwiches together better. The girls think they are really neat. In all, a quick, easy and delicious lunch so we could get back to our lessons.

This afternoon after our school work, we got started putting together 3 new hive bodies for our bees that came in the mail yesterday. We had decided to decorate them some with a little stenciling, which the girls and I did first. Then my husband and I glued and nailed the boxes together. Tomorrow I’ll finish them off with a couple of coats of polyurethane on the outside so they’ll last for a long time in our humid southern weather. Here are a couple of photos of how they turned out - I think they are pretty cute:

The front (3 hives deep):

Both sides look like this:

And the backs look like this:

I think the girls did a great job, with just a little help from mom. They love the new boxes.

Because our bee box activities ran through dinner, we decided to go out to eat this evening at our favorite Mexican restaurant about 5 minutes from our home. We had Pollo Adobe - chicken in a cheese sauce with rice and beans. Delicious!

Thanks for stopping by today - I look forward to our last day together on Saturday!

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